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Snoop Dogg. Photo: Theo Wargo / Getty Images North America / AFP

Rapper Snoop Dogg held by Italian customs

Rap star Snoop Dogg has been stopped by police in Italy while carrying $422,000 (€384,000) in cash, authorities say. READ

Snoop Dogg in Milan Fashion Week cage fight »

Simone Ruffini. Photo: Attila Kisbenedek / AFP

Italy's Ruffini wins world open water gold

Italy dominated the men's marathon 25km open water podium on Saturday with Simone Ruffini taking gold and Matteo Furlan bronze at the world championships in Kazan. READ

Diego Angemi and Francesco Ceccarini. Photo: private

Italian couple tie the knot at Swedish Pride festival

Two Italian expats in Sweden are set to get married in front of hundreds of thousands of people at the Stockholm Pride Parade on Saturday afternoon – to send a message about gay rights to their home country. READ

Swedish ice hockey club launches LGBT appeal »

Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi defended his labour reform programme on Friday. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP

Renzi defends reforms as jobless rate rises

Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi defended his labour reform programme on Friday, playing down gloomy unemployment data and insisting the debt-laden country was on the right path to growth. READ

The 'blond' bear was caught on camera by a farmer in Lombardy. Photo: Screengrab/YouTube.

VIDEO: 'Blond' bear finds internet fame in Italy

A blond-haired bear has become something of a sensation in Italy after being caught on video by a farmer in Lombardy. READ

British supermodel Naomi Campbell was convicted of assaulting a photographer on the Sicilian island of Lipari in 2009. Photo: Chris Weeks/Getty Images North America/AFP

Naomi Campbell guilty over Italy assault

British supermodel Naomi Campbell was on Friday convicted by a Sicilian court of assaulting a photographer on the island of Lipari, and given a six month suspended prison term, Live Sicilia reported. READ

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Photo: screengrab Youreporter.it

Alitalia attendant loses cool amid airport chaos

A video showing an Alitalia flight attendant shoving a passenger at Rome's Fiumicino airport has gone viral. READ

A vegan meal. Photo: Jennifer/Flickr

Nursery was wrong to expel vegan child: court

A court in the northern Italian province of Alto Adige has ruled that a nursery school was wrong to expel a child whose mother requested that he be fed a vegan diet. READ

A protest against premier Matteo Renzi's controversial labour reforms late last year. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFP

Italy's unemployment rises to 12.7 percent

Italy's unemployment rate rose to 12.7 percent in June, the national statistics office, Istat, said on Friday. READ

Crumbling buildings and rubbish in Palermo, Sicily. Photo: Denis Bocquet

Italy's south is worse off than Greece

Italy's impoverished south has the lowest growth rate in the eurozone, lagging far behind even the sick man of Europe, Greece. READ

Features

The ill-fated hotel is much loved by local pigeons. Photo: agrigentonotizie.it

Ghost hotel 'celebrates' 61 years without guests

Work began on Italy's Grande Hotel San Calogero more than 60 years ago, but in spite of being renovated and inaugurated twice, the hotel has never entertained a single guest. READ

A tourist in an Italian fountain. Photo: Giuseppe Cacace / AFP

Tourists in hot water for Rome fountain dips

As temperatures in Italy soar thanks to the latest heatwave dubbed "“Caronte”", tourists have started leaping into the country's historic fountains to keep cool. But little do they know it's against the law. READ

A centurion crosses the road. Photo: Filippo Monteforte

How to keep cool like an ancient Roman

As the mercury rises in Italy and the days and nights get unbearable, we look to the ancient world for tips on staying cool. READ

Apericena or Aperitivo? Photo: Ardo Beltz

A beginner's guide to aperitivo in Italy

The Italians go crazy for them – and it's easy to see why. Here, The Local's Patrick Browne gives you the lowdown on one of Italy's most treasured rituals: the aperitivo. READ

Museum for the Memory of Ustica. Photo Ghedolo

Dark tourism: Italy's creepiest attractions

While Italy might be famed for its art, history and food - it is also home to some of the creepiest tourist attractions on Earth. READ

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Flights in and out of Rome's disaster-hit Fiumicino airport were seriously disrupted for a second day on Thursday. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP

Disruption continues at Rome's crisis-hit airport

Flights in and out of Rome's disaster-hit Fiumicino airport were seriously disrupted for a second day on Thursday after a fire in a nearby pine grove threw dense smoke across the runway. READ

Mario Balotelli could be set for a return to Italy. Photo: Paul Ellis/AFP

Mario Balotelli set for return to Italy: reports

Italian striker Mario Balotelli is set for a return to Italy after a lacklustre performance in just one season with Liverpool FC, according to British media reports. READ

Rome's Fiumicino airport was hit by a power cut on Thursday. Photo: Gabriel Buoys/AFP

Rome's Fiumicino airport hit by power cut

Rome’s Fiumicino airport suffered yet another setback on Thursday morning – a 20-minute power cut. READ

Of the almost 6,000 minors who landed on Italy’s shores during the first six months of this year, more than 3,830 arrived alone. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP

What happens to Italy’s missing migrant kids?

Almost 5,000 refugee children have disappeared after arriving on Italy’s shores since last summer, with many passing through the small Sicilian port town of Pozzallo. The Local spoke to one woman there, who has witnessed both their fear and determination to survive. READ

Photo: Mustafa Ozer/AFP

Italian man obtains identity - after 62 years

An man living in the Ligurian city of Genoa has been issued with an identity card after 62 years, having lived his entire life invisible to the Italian state. READ

Rubbish lines Sixth Street in New York. Photo: Facebook

'New York's waste issue is worse than Rome's'

Romans have taken to Facebook to hit back at the Italian capital's critics following a wave of bad publicity the city has received in the international press. READ

Photo: Shutterstock

Fireworks factory blast death toll rises to ten

The death toll from an explosion at a fireworks factory in southern Italy last week has risen to ten after one of the factory's owners died of his injuries. READ

The fire broke out in a pine grove near Rome's Fiumicino airport. Photo: Photo: Karl Stagno-Navarra

Probe opens into fire near Rome airport

Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said that an investigation has been opened after authorities found that a fire near Rome's Fiumicino airport started in multiple places, leading them to believe it was started deliberately. READ

Venice Film Festival

Johnny Depp on the red carpet in Venice in 2007. Photo: Christophe Simon / AFP

Depp and Fiennes top Venice film fest line-up

Hollywood stars Johnny Depp and Ralph Fiennes top a powerful line-up at this year's Venice film festival, with US and Italian films dominating the competition for the Golden Lion, from war dramas to rock-star thrillers. READ

Italians are losing faith in their leader, Matteo Renzi. Photo: Thierry Charlier/AFP

Confidence in Italy’s prime minister plummets

Italians’ confidence in their young premier Matteo Renzi has plummeted since his whirlwind start early last year, according to a new opinion poll. READ

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Mary Vetsera. Photo: ÖNB

Mary Vetsera's suicide letters found

Suicide letters believed to have been written by the mistress of Austria’s Crown Prince Rudolf, 17-year-old Mary Vetsera, before her untimely death have been found in an archive of the private Schoeller bank. READ

The Thai Airways flight continued to Bangkok. Photo: Faisal Akram

Drunk Swiss man tied up on flight to Bangkok

Passengers on a flight from Zurich to Bangkok were forced to tie up a drunk Swiss man who caused a fracas during the journey. READ

Photo: DPA

Doctor on trial after woman wakes in morgue

A doctor from North Rhine-Westphalia will face charges for negligence and bodily harm, authorities said on Tuesday – after accidentally sending a living woman to the morgue. READ

The Faroese 'whale grind'. Photo: Sea Shepherd

Anti-whaling activists 'hypocrites': Danish MP

With Danish MPs being spammed by thousands of emails from anti-whaling protesters, one angry MP has said animals in other countries have far worse lives than the whales hunted off the Faroe Islands. READ

The reception area of the Silken Ramblas hotel where the shooting is reported to have taken place. Photo: hoteles-silken.com

Two injured in Barcelona hotel shooting

UPDATED: Two people were injured in a shooting just off one of the busiest tourist streets in the Catalan capital on Tuesday afternoon. READ

Fires have been spreading through France this summer. Photo: AFP

10,000 campers forced to flee forest fire in France

UPDATED: A new wild fire broke out in the south of France on Monday afternoon which forced authorities to evacuate three campsites where 10,000 holidaymakers had been staying. READ

Photo: Hennig Olsen

Norway makes world record ice cream cone

Norwegian ice-cream maker, Hennig Olsen, unveiled the world’s largest-ever ice cream cone in front of 9,000 people at the start of Sunday’s Tall Ships Race at Kristianstad. READ